Jacobin Show: Why Everything Is Politics Now w/ Anton Jäger
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jacobin contributor Anton Jäger explains the rise of "hyper-politics" and why everything these days is "political" but collective struggle remains elusive. Luke Savage analyzes the Democrats' recent failure to pass voting rights legislation. Jen Pan argues that the debate over affirmative action at elite universities overlooks larger inequalities.
The Jacobin Show, hosted by Jen Pan, offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from January 26, 2022.
Read Anton Jäger's article in Tribune: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/from-post-politics-to-hyper-politics
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, you are watching the Jacobin Show. I'm your host, Jen Pan. We of course |
| 0:24.2 | are here live every Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern. So if you are tuning in for the first time, |
| 0:30.2 | welcome. If you've been watching the show from the start, welcome back. Good to see you. |
| 0:35.6 | Before we start, I just want to quickly ask everybody to hit subscribe because we're |
| 0:40.4 | actually really close to hitting 100k subscribers on the Jacobin Channel. I found out when we |
| 0:45.7 | hit 100k, our producer, Young Kale, gets a plaque. So please hit subscribe so we can get |
| 0:51.3 | Kale that plaque. I also want to quickly mention on the subject of Young Kale, he is now hosting |
| 0:56.9 | a members-only Q&A live stream every Friday at 5 p.m. Eastern. So if you are one of our YouTube |
| 1:03.2 | members, first of all, thanks for supporting us. Please tune into that live stream if you want to |
| 1:07.8 | ask Kale questions, if you want to hang out with him, if you want to tell him what you would like |
| 1:12.3 | to see on our YouTube channel. So yes, he hosts the live stream usually with a mystery guest. Last |
| 1:19.2 | week's mystery guest was Boscar. I'm not sure who it is this week, so it's truly a mystery, so |
| 1:24.5 | you'll have to come find out. So for today's show, of course, I will be speaking with Jacobin |
| 1:30.5 | contributor Anton Yeager. He is a longtime writer and researcher on populism, and he's written a new |
| 1:37.0 | article for Jacobin, which I believe it actually is for Jacobin and Tribune called Everything is Political, |
| 1:42.4 | and no one can do anything about it. We're going to be talking to him about the rise of what he |
| 1:47.2 | calls hyperpolitics. So I'm really looking forward to that. I myself will be making a few comments on |
| 1:53.7 | the recent Supreme Court announcement. The Supreme Court is going to hear two cases, probably next term |
| 2:01.0 | that could actually spell the end of race-based affirmative action for higher education in the US. So |
| 2:08.2 | I'm going to be looking at some of the debate around that and more specifically covering what I |
| 2:12.8 | think the debate misses. For now, we actually have Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage here with us. |
| 2:20.7 | He is going to be talking about the recent Democratic failure to get the voting rights bill across |
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